Homeworld 3 Review by MandaloreGaming | Strawberin0 Reaction
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
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Probably one of my favorite reactions in recent memory. Omitting the obvious, that being that Manalore's video is amazing, the banter with the chat was top-tier. This is going to be hard to top going forward.
I know its not the review, but "that time mandaloregaming almost died" is his greatest video ever, as are all of his stories
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That was me! Thx for the MVP points. I’m glad I helped make this one of your favorite reactions :)
I hate the line "Who would Karan be, if Kharak had not burned?"
She'd have been the one who brought everyone home! The journey was always going to happen, especially since Deserts of Kharak established they needed to leave Kharak since the desert was always expanding! As soon as she was entombed in the ship she was destined to be the one who guided her people, she always would have been a hero, and still would have been game 2's "Chosen One".
It's a minor line, but it's also another one of those "did you even play the games" kind of lines. It really goes with the whole "I'm sorry I didn't trust you, I should have trusted you, but I'm in charge now." That Mandalore shows off for the final mission. To make matters worse, there are other stories to tell in other material they could've covered instead, such as material covered in Homeworld: Revelations (a tabletop game which, to give it credit, did have a few revelations in it).
To get into that, the Kadeshi (the people who live in the Garden of Kadesh that Mandalore shows at the start of his Homeworld 1 review and which you channel at the end of this review) are Hiigarans who, after being exiled, chose to live in the Nebula of Kadesh instead of continuing the journey. Once there, they began to prey upon other ships while hiding their own presence, since there was no planet in which to gather resources and people passing through were their only way in which to replenish their losses. Eventually they grew powerful enough that nobody passed through the Nebula anymore, and nobody even knew what happened to the ships that entered thanks to tech they had that blocked hyperspace jumps. When the Kushan jumped into the Garden of Kadesh and they learned the Kadeshi are long-lost cousins of theirs, the Kadeshi refused to join them because they believed it would be impossible to recover the Homeworld from the Taiidan, and they believed the Taiidan would learn about the Kadeshi when they defeat the Kushan and went through their memory banks. When the Kushan succeeded against all odds, half of the Kadeshi left for their Homeworld and ended up being experts in setting up/running their space stations and off-planet economy (since they spent thousands of years in space and are experts in those fields), which also explains how the Hiigarans managed to set up their economy and get a larger population in a relatively short period of time. It also explains why the Somtaaw were seen as being insignificant despite having a space mining role (something that should have been important), since now there are Kadeshi who are going to be far better at space mining than the Somtaaw could ever hope to be. Other Kadeshi also left to explore the universe now that they no longer needed to hide from the Taiidan while a minority chose to remain in the Garden. I feel that's the best way to do supporting material, it both answers questions and bolsters the old material without breaking anything.
Now with all that said, I would take a story that covers the journey of the Kadeshi in a heartbeat over anything in Homeworld 3, especially since their story is in supplementary material (their fate is ambiguous after Homeworld 1) that most people don't even know exists. Failing that, they could have told the story of anyone in the setting, anyone at all, except for the story they told. I don't understand at all what the writers of Homeworld 3 were going for, and the fact that Homeworld 3 ends with you having the same objective and being in a similar state as Homeworld 1 feels like a kick to the balls.
It really shows Mandalore was right in his Homeworld 1 review when he praised the game for not being a character drama.
I would like to thank you for streaming on weekdays. Thanks to that, as an OG Homeworld fan, you've allowed me to miss the Homeworld 3 stream. Thank you for saving me from reliving the pain.
One more thing I wanted to mention on its own was how unimpressive the Queen is. The final boss of Cataclysm, the Naggarok, works differently to every other ship in the setting because it does not seem to accelerate or decelerate, it just moves and stops. There aren't even trails coming out of the exhaust because it doesn't really have one. This helps the ship feel truly alien and scary since at any moment, it can zip away from all your ships to escape a good engagement you had against it, and if you had ships out of formation it would move very quickly over to them to devour them (which heals itself). It makes you feel like you're up against something monstrous and incomprehensible.
Then the Queen's "titan" class ship shows up in Homeworld 3, and it's just a big ship. It's not even something new, since in the mission you fight it, the characters are like "yeah we fought titan ships before, and we teach classes on fighting them so we know what to do."
Even after the titan ship dies, it doesn't feel triumphant, because all the characters were going: "seen it." The Queen wasn't even on it either, so again I don't know what the writers were trying to do with that boss.
Who let them cook? They melted through the fucking cookware!